Monday, October 13

Monday, October 14

Letter Study: Mm
 Popcorn Word: an

Phonological Awareness: Segment Initial Sounds: EX: r-ed, p-an

Language Arts: Comprehension Strategy: Analyze characters through their actions, words, thoughts, and feelings and visualizing to deepen understanding of characters.
A storybook reader is scheduled for 10:10 to read Scaredy Cat Splat.
DAILY 5: This is the 'Anchor Chart' we refer to in order to increase reading stamina.
  
 Writer's Workshop:

Math: 2D Shapes/Positional Words (Behind, Above, Next To, etc.)/Writing #5
**Zero the Hero visits today! Day 30!
 PhyEd Today

Smart Room Highlight: Flashlight Tag on the Ceiling

~Tomorrow is late start...Have your child wear their Irish Pride shirt.
~National Hot Lunch Day is tomorrow. We will meet you in the front entryway at 11:45 and the children will be going to recess at 12:10.

Our Classroom Wish List

Cardstock: Primary colors
hp 61 Tri-Color Ink Cartridges
Double AA Batteries
Velcro

Friday, October 10

                     Friday, October 10

Letter Focus: Letter Review (K, L)

Sight Words: to, it

Language Arts: We continue to build fluency by echo reading in our Reader's Theater script.

Character Education: Mrs. Weninger will be with us from 8:25-8:45.

Math: 2-D Shapes: Attributes of a Hexagon & Circle/ Writing #4

Smart Room: The Pumpkin Roll

Library Day
  Music Day
We are previewing the Book Fair this morning. Days & Times as follows:
Friday, Oct. 10: 9:15 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 13: 9:15 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 14: 9:15 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 15: 8:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

~I am looking forward to visiting with all of you at conferences next week! 

~Enjoy your weekend!

Thursday, October 9

Thursday, October 9

The kids will see a short video on fire safety today.
Letter Focus: Ll
Sight Word Focus: it

 Handwriting: Letter L

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Compound Words
EX: homework (home-work)
Language Arts: Practice reading Hickory, Dickory, Dock with varied speed and pacing. Tonight, I will send home this poem to work on fluency/pacing with your child. Please point to the words as you read it with your child. This will reinforce what we worked on today. Ideas to remember:
~We read different kinds of texts at different speeds.
~We read easy parts faster and hard parts slower.
~We match our pacing to what the author is saying.
~Reading too fast makes the reading hard to understand.
~Reading too slowly does not sound natural.
~No matter what speed we use to read, we pay attention to punctuation.

Math: 2D Shapes: Attributes of a Rectangle & Square/Writing #3
DAILY 5: They made it 8 minutes at 'Read to Self' yesterday...This is a HUGE success!

Computer class today

SMART Room: Frankenstein's Nut & Bolts (Excellent fine motor activity!)

PhyEd Day

~What a fabulous trip we had to the fire station! The children seemed to really enjoy seeing, hearing, and trying out some of the equipment. A special thank you to Firefighter, Steve Peterson & John Erger for taking the time to share their knowledge with us!

Wednesday, October 8

Wednesday, October 8 

We are excited to go on our walking field trip to the fire station! We will be leaving at 8:30 and returning about 10:15.
 Letter Study: Ll
 Popcorn Word: it

 Name Focus: Allie
 Phonological Awareness: More Work with Segmenting the First Sound in a Word
b-ook, f-ish, etc.
Language Arts: Using the Reader's Theater script, With My Family, the kids will echo-read to build fluency and build comprehension through retelling of the story. (We did not get to this yesterday.)
DAILY 5: The kids made it to nearly 5 minutes of Read to Self yesterday!

Music Today

Creep Track: Letters on the left & Dots in the Ten Frame on the right

~I will post pictures of our trip to the fire station on here tomorrow.